June 2023
Dear ATDS colleagues,
We hope you and your loved ones and communities are experiencing a healthy and restorative summer as we look forward to ATDS’s participation at ATHE in August.
In August, Dr. Jocelyn Buckner’s term as president concludes and Dr. Donatella Galella assumes the presidency of ATDS. We write now, together, in the midst of a collaborative transition in leadership.
We are excited for additional transitions in 2023 with the election of Ginny Anderson as Vice President/President Elect, David Bisaha as Membership Secretary, Victoria LeFave as Graduate Student Representative, and Bess Rowen, Jonathan Shandell, Jonathan Chambers, and Claire Syler as Executive Board Members. Thanks to our outgoing officers Valerie Joyce (Membership Secretary), Mia Levenson (Graduate Student Representative), and our outgoing Board Members Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Ginny Anderson, Andrew Gibb, and Ariel Nereson for your service to ATDS.
The 2023 ATDS special issue of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre is live! Edited by Jacqueline Goldfinger, the issue’s theme is “Revolutions in New Work Development.” It features diverse commentary from a wide range of theatre professionals in formats including academic articles, case studies, interviews, and firstperson accounts. https://jadtjournal.org
Congratulations to the 2023 ATDS Award winners! Please find awardee names and projects below. Thank you to our awards committee chairs and members (also below) for your labor in recognizing our colleagues’ endeavors. We will celebrate our award winners at ATHE during the ATDS business meeting on Thursday, August 1:002:30pm. Please attend to learn more about ATDS and to celebrate our colleagues’ work!
Additionally, please plan to join us for ATDS’s Virtual Business and Membership Meeting which will be held on Monday, July 24th, 2:30-4:00pm Eastern (agenda and Zoom link forthcoming).
Both ATDS members and non-members are welcome. (Invite a friend!)
If you are attending the conference in Austin, we hope you will support ATDS’s programming at ATHE (ATDS panel schedule attached). Thank you to ATDS Conference Planners Heidi Nees and Amy Meyer for all your efforts in coordinating such an exciting schedule.
We hope to see many familiar and new faces during our pre-conference online membership meeting, and to reconnect with as many of you as possible during our sessions at ATHE.
Best wishes, Jocelyn and Donatella
American Theatre and Drama Society 2023 AWARD WINNERS Attend the ATDS awards celebration at ATHE on Thursday 8/3 at 1:00-2:30 to honor our colleagues!
Betty Jean Jones Award
Annabelle Winograd
John W. Frick Book Award
Esther Kim Lee, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era, UMich Press
John W. Frick Book Award
Honorable Mention Julius Fleming, Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation, NYU Press
John W. Frick Book Award
Honorable Mention Ariel Nereson, Democracy Moving: Bill T. Jones, Contemporary Performance, and the American Racial Past, UMich Press
Vera Mowry Roberts Award
Amanda Reid, “Dancing Shay-Shay: Katherine Dunham, Marcus Garvey, and Jamaican Decolonization,” Theatre Journal
Vera Mowry Roberts Award Honorable Mention
Samuel Yates, “A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals,” The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre, Routledge
Publication Subvention Award
Jieun Lee, Performing Transnational Adoption: Unsettling Scripts (The Ohio State University Press)
Publication Subvention Award Honorable Mention
Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: US Performance After Rehabilitation(New York University Press)
Faculty Travel/Research Award
Nick Fesette, Emory University Benjamine Gillespie, Baruch College-CUNY
Contingent Faculty Travel/Research Award
Lynn Deboeck, University of Utah Scott Bradley, University of Iowa
Graduate Student Travel/Research Award
Mariah Horner, “Abolitionist Dramaturgies: Theatre as World Building”
Graduate Student Travel/Research Award Honorable Mention
Sam Briggs, “Exploring the Possibility of Female Power in Seneca’s Phaedra”
ATDS Emerging Scholar Awards
Carlina Perna, “Drawing a Wider Circle for Contemporary Trans Theatre”
Gabrielle Lewis, “Centering Care in Performing the Archive: Reflecting on Petrificationology”
ATDS 2023 AWARD COMMITTEES
Betty Jean Jones Award
Andy Gibb (chair), Bethany Hughes, Vanessa Campagna John W. Frick Book Award Paige McGinley (chair), Virginia Anderson, Christin Essin
Vera Mowry Roberts Award
Jeanmarie Higgins (chair), Catharine Young, Bryan Vandevender
Publication Subvention Award
Dani Snyder-Young (chair), Dave Bisaha, Ryan Donovan
Faculty Travel/Research Award
Dan Venning (chair), Leah Lowe, Patrick McKelvey
Contingent Faculty Travel/Research Award
Susanne Shawyer (chair), Jonathan Shandell, Drew Eisenhauer
Graduate Student Travel/Research Award
Karen Jean Martinson (chair), Stephanie Lim, Alejandro Bastien Olvera
ATDS Emerging Scholar Awards
Jane Barnette (chair), Amy Huang, Gina Sandi-Diaz
